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After years of offering odds on the next chief executive of other companies,
Paddy Power is making a book on its next boss.

Patrick Kennedy, who announced yesterday that he would leave the Irish betting
operator next year after ten years in charge, said that he had been told
“the guys upstairs” had drawn up a list of candidates to replace him.

It was only an internal book, he added, and they had “yet to share it with me”.

Mr Kennedy, 44, said that running Paddy Power had been “as fun and as
interesting a job as anyone could hope